The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
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Category: Essays | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
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Category: Essays
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Essays
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World by Peter Zarrow (Editor); Liang Qichao
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Category: Essays
'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evi ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
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Category: Essays
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
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Category: Essays
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
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Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Abolition Geography: Selected Essays and Interviews by Brenna; Gilmo Alberto; Bhandar Toscano
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Category: Essays
Race, Space and Abolition brings together Gilmore's essays, articles and interviews from over the past two decades. One of the foremost contemporary theorists and activists in movements for prison abolition and social justice, Gilmore's essays comprise searing analyses of the origins of mass incarcerati ...Show more
Babel - Adventures in Translation by Dennis Duncan; Stephen Harrison; Katrin Kohl; Matthew Reynolds
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Category: Essays
This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, focusin ...Show more
Best Laid Plans: a Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: the Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar by Sean Turnell
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Category: Essays
Best laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar's dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dram ...Show more
Black Womanist Ethics by Katie G. Cannon
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Category: Essays
This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, the work next traces the emergence of the Black woman's literary tradition and explains its importance in expressing t ...Show more